Draughts Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do,…
— John Burroughs
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy…
— George Arnold
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
— Plato
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred…
— Plato
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I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large…
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
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He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered…
— Garry Kasparov
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
— Richard Lovelace
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and…
— Leon Panetta
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I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers…
— Alexander Pope
Who Wrote These Draughts Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Draughts Quotes as follows: